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Kennedy Dancers 40th Anniversary Jersey City Follies

The Kennedy Dancers are pleased to announce their 40th Anniversary Season. Since 1977 the Kennedy Dancers- a nonprofit dance company has served the New Jersey community with dance classes, professional performances, Free programs for Senior citizens and adults with disabilities, scholarships for teens to train as professional dancers.

In celebration of the Kennedy Dancers 40th Anniversary we are presenting a fundraising gala- The Jersey City Follies, on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at the historic Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theater on Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey.

The Jersey City Follies is an evening of fun & music and celebrating vaudeville and burlesque style entertainment with (and you won’t believe who’ll be joining us in the performance) Hudson County Executive Tom De Gise, Hudson County Freeholder William O’Dea, PSE&G Public Affairs Manager of the greater New York Area Richard Dwyer, Assemblywoman Angela McKnight of the 31st District, Senator Sandra Cunningham of the 31st District, Hudson County Register Diane Coleman, Jersey City Councilwoman at large Joyce Watterman, former Jersey City Mayor Jeremiah Healy, New Jersey Assemblyman Nicholas Chiavorlatti of the 31st District, Anthem Education Group Asst. Director of Admissions Natasha Scalia, Executive Director of the Jersey City Bethune Performing Arts Center Alvin Petit, Former Jersey City Corporation Counsel Sean M. Connelly, Jersey City Development Agency Administrator Barbara Amato, Jersey City Director of Cultural Affairs Elizabeth Cain, Tommy “Two Scoops” Parisi, Director of Jersey City Community Development Block Grant Carmen Gandulla, Actress and Jersey City Board of Education Teacher Susan Murphy, Lead Singer of Soul Generation 2 Cliff Perkins, Director of Spirit of Life Ensemble and the Community Awareness Series of Jersey City Daoud Williams, and Special guest performer Leona Beldini- former Jersey City Deputy Mayor making her return appearance as “Hope Diamond, the Gem of the Exotics.”

The performers will present music, dance, theater acts- among the many acts are: Mayor Hague’s Barbershop Quartet. (This is true- Hague had a musical quartet on the payroll), featuring County Executive Tom DeGise, Former Jersey City Mayor Jeremiah Healy, Hudson County Freeholder William O’Dea.

Leona Beldini returns to the stage as the World Famous Burlesque of the 1950’s “Hope Diamond Gem of the Exotics.”

Senator Sandra Cunningham, Hudson County Register Diane Coleman, and Assemblywoman Angela McKnight all in a scene from “The Dreamgirls.”

All funds from the “Gala” will go to support Kennedy Dancer’s many outreach and cultural programs and includes matching funds for New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant.

Funding For The Kennedy Dancers

The Kennedy Dancers, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

Funding is made possible in part by funds from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Dept. of State- a partner of The National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from The New Jersey Cultural Trust, PSE&G Foundation, The African American Fund, The Scarmolin Trust, Turrell Fund, Puffin Foundation, Jersey City Community Development Block Grant, Hudson City Savings, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, Bank of America Foundation, Lillian P. Schenck Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Provident Bank Foundation, The Hudson County Department of Health and Human Services Peer Grouping, New Jersey State Council on the Arts in partnership with Young Audiences NJ & EPA and Artists In Education, and The Dragone Family Fund